AS A CULTURE, WE love a celebration. We love a first. We hold them high. We all marvel at headlines and highlight reels. But we rarely discuss the marks and scars and bruises that come with breaking through glass ceilings. Rarely do we talk openly about the tumult of the come up, the underside of a dream realized—rarely do we share that even good things can sometimes play out in complicated, painful, and confusing ways. We feel pressure to post about the joy and the gratitude and the triumph of the biggest moments in our lives—promotions, graduations, engagements, marriages, even
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